Stroke damage in a human brain

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Horrors: I’ve forgotten to post several articles I wrote about findings presented at the Society for Neuroscience conference last week. I’ll work my way backwards, I suppose, so here’s the latest, about a University of Milan discovery that blocking a certain cell-wall gate in the hour after stroke (in a lab rat) could prevent almost all damage.

The photo is not directly related to the research, which was on lab rats — it’s a stock photo from the sciam.com story, so I’ve actually no idea of the history of that brain. But it seemed an arresting image.

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